137 - Misha Mansoor

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

Music

4.8 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Focusrite brings you a deep guitar hang with MISHA MANSOOR, who plugs two of his favorite signature-model Jackson guitars, deconstructs some of his great riffs for you, and shares how he created PERIPHERY, one of the most influential prog-metal bands in history. (Some would even say Mansoor is one of the chief architects of the genre known as “djent” — we’ll see if the ever-humble guitarist/producer agrees.) Misha also shares everything from his deep Allan Holdsworth influence to how he creates Hendrix-style echo-before-distortion psychedelic feedback loops. Additionally, Mansoor details how he and his other guitar hero friend, Tosin Abasi, like to go hot-doggin’ down canyon roads behind the wheels of exotic supercars. Thanks again to FOCUSRITE, makers of great audio interfaces and more, for making this episode happen.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	No guitar is safe.
0:07.5	Wow, what a guest today.
0:09.2	Misha Mansour from Periphery, super inspiring.
0:12.1	I am Jude Gold, and this is No Guitar is Safe,
0:15.0	and got to thank FocusRite for making this happen.
0:18.0	And it's so funny because Misha uses Focus Right all day long. He's
0:22.6	actually using that interface, one of their interfaces during this interview you're about to hear.
0:27.4	But when I bring up the topic of Focus Right, man, he punks me so hard. I haven't been punk this
0:33.9	hard on the podcast ever, I don't think. It was funny. Misha's great.
0:37.1	Yeah. punk this hard on the podcast ever, I don't think. It was funny. Misha's great.
0:53.8	Entrepreneur, guitarist, composer, producer, visionary.
1:00.8	Some would say that he is one of the architects of gent, that lovely brand of metal that you really have to pronounce, gent.
1:03.6	That's the only way to say that word.
1:05.9	But yeah, we really, really do thank Focus Right for bringing us this spectacular guest today. In
1:12.3	the case you didn't know, FocusRite, man, they've been pioneering audio technology for over
1:16.3	35 years. And the Scarlet and Claret interfaces, they have instrument inputs that can switch
1:23.4	you into high-Z, you know, high-im high impedance mode, which can handle the hottest pickups
1:28.3	without clipping or creating unwanted distortion. So that's great no matter what kind of guitars and basses you play.
1:33.3	And these pre-amp knobs, man, they have these gain halos, which are really cool because visually
1:39.3	they make setting your levels really easy. They provide a clear status of the signal level.
1:47.1	You know, they sort of show a different color,
1:52.1	depending on how hot the, you know, the amplitude of the incoming signal is. And if you're new to digital recording or digital audio workstations and et cetera and software,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jude Gold, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Jude Gold and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.